How do you pray?

[Tara.]

Just curious, how do you pray? When do you pray? Do you say it out loud?

[Youth Pastor]

A prayer is simply a conversation with God. It's a chance to praise Him, ask for needs as long as it's not a "give me give me" sort of thing, and a way to ask Him for guidance. That's a summary of what a prayer is.

Matthew 6:9-13

'Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. 10 'Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. 11 'Give us this day our daily bread. 12 'And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 'And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. [For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.']

I'll get the translation for this from my office and post it later today.
1 Thessalonians 5:17 says, "pray continually" which means we should pray often and consistently. If you want to pray out loud that's ok. You'll see a lot of times people pray silently before they eat. Sometimes people pray out loud before they go to bed. If you want to know more just PM me. I'm a full time Youth Pastor at a First Baptist Church.

[Dont3verLooseHope]

you can say it out loud ! sometimes i say it out loud ! you can say it in your mind it does not matter !

[savealife723]

I pray pretty constantly. Even the little things that happen, I just give them up to God or ask what he thinks I should do about it. I'm usually in conversation with God whenever I can be. I think prayer is what keeps my relationship with him so strong.

I pray out loud sometimes or I pray silently in my head. It really just depends on the situation and what's happening. Either way, God hears me and is faithful. (:

[Dez]

I usually don't pray. Only when something bad happens, usually, which I guess isn't a good thing. But I kinda sit up and whisper my prayer.

[Fairy Poppins]

How do I pray?

Silently and with my eyes tight shut, as I cling on to the back of my boyfriend's motorbike.

[bailatyvm]

Haha, I've prayed in a lot of weird ways. One time we were having a student leader meeting and we all were laying on the floor when we prayed. Usually I have my eyes shut and I'm laying face down. But yeah, it doesn't really matter. It's kind of an ongoing conversation :P

[Nicole!]

I usually close my eyes and it's in my head

[ReluctantPegasister]

In times of great despair, I will make a fleeting, silent prayer to the heavens to kill me.

Mostly, I don't believe enough to pray.

[Nomophobia]

I sometimes say it in aloud if im alone, but most of the time its in my head when i have some peace x

[volleyballchick751]

I usually pray in my head, cuz ill do it sitting in class, in the car and its easier than having everyone around eavesdropping. I also pray at night before i go to sleep, mostly in my head also.

[Eldora]

Well, this is probably gonna be unusual, but...

I don't really know what religion to believe in, though I'm quite interested in Pagan religions and ancient 'mythological' religions. So, when I feel the extreme need to pray, I'll make an offering of something -- usually some type of oil or something -- and then murmur my prayers, so my mom can't hear, lol. Though I've prayed to many different deities, Skadi, Isis, Freya, Artemis, and Athena all have places pretty near and dear to my heart.

I don't even know what my religion is, lol, so.

[MegaMadness]

The only time I pray is at school, we usually all pray out loud together like the hail mary etc, or have someonne read out a prayer from a book or even make one up.

[EmisaurusRex]

Sometimes I pray out loud, usually I pray in my head. But when I first started putting a lot of effort into praying and felt insecure about it, I'd write my prayers out in a journal...kind of like a letter to God? Anyways, now that I've gotten more confident in it, I just pray whenever. I try to pray without ceasing, but most days I don't think I do very well with that.

[Adrian]

At night only
usually before i sleep close my eyes and sometimes whisper sometimes just in my head

[Xujhan]

Matthew 6:5-6

[Megan1]

Originally Posted by Youth Pastor

A prayer is simply a conversation with God. It's a chance to praise Him, ask for needs as long as it's not a "give me give me" sort of thing, and a way to ask Him for guidance. That's a summary of what a prayer is.

Yes!


I set aside one time a day (which usually lasts around 30 minutes, but often goes longer than that) to do nothing but pray and read my bible. So during that time, I usually pray out loud and pour my heart out to God about absolutely everything, sing whatever worship songs are in my mind, read a page in a devotional book, and read wherever God leads me to in the bible.

So I have that one formal prayer time every day where it's just God and I and no other distractions (tv, phone, friends, computer, etc). In addition to that though, I just talk to God (usuallly silently in my head) throughout the day whenever I think of something that I need to pray about, or whenever I just want to talk to Him.

I also want to point out that there is no set amount of time that God requires us to pray each day, and He doesn't care whether we pray out loud or silently (as long as our reason for praying silently isn't because we are ashamed of Him). I set aside time each day to pray, but it's not because God is saying "You have to pray for at least this long!", it's just because I know that I personally need to do that in order to stay focused on Him....because I get distracted easily if I don't.

When we need something from God, He wants us to come to Him and tell Him exactly what we need- but then trust that He is going to do the right thing, whether that thing is what we want or not.